From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Design Patterns – Singleton [Series][How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on January 22, 2010

in Design Patterns,How-To,MySQL,PHP,Programming,Series,Zend Framework

A note about these series. It appears that Giorgio Sironi and I had the same idea regarding Design Patterns and blogging about them. He covers the Singleton design pattern thoroughly in his blog post, which is recommended reading. The Problem When I started programming in PHP I was faced with creating a simple database driven [...]

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Create a SSL Certificate (Linux) [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on January 10, 2010

in Gentoo,How-To,Linux,SSL

There are times that I want to set up a secure communication with the server I am working on. This might be because I want to run phpMyAdmin over SSL (I do not like unencrypted communications over the Internet), install a certificate for an eShop for a client or just for my personal use. The [...]

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Design Patterns – Series [Series][How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on January 6, 2010

in Design Patterns,How-To,PHP,Programming,Series

A lot of developers – including myself – have at some point in their programming careers found themselves repeating a task that they have completed for a previous project or for a previous part of the same project. This problem of repeating code is solved by design patterns. A design pattern is the way that [...]

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